Effect of Foliar Application and Mineral Fertilizer on Growth Parameters and Content Auxins, GA and CK in Cucumber leaves
Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty Of Agriculture, University of Kufa , Iraq 2Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Babylon Province, Baghdad, Iraq 3 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor. Malaysia 4 Department of Socio-econSabreen S.Toman 1, Duraid K.A. AL-Taey2, Abdel Razzaq Al-Tawaha2, Sitti Nurani Sirajuddin4,ilham rasyid4, Ali A.d. Al-Hadi Hassan1omic of Animal Science, Faculty of Animal Science, Hasan
Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Faculty Of Agriculture, University of Kufa , Iraq
2Department of Horticulture, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Babylon Province, Baghdad, Iraq
3 Department of Crop Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University Putra Malaysia, 43400 Serdang, Selangor. Malaysia
4 Department of Socio-economic of Animal Science, Faculty of Animal Science, Hasanuddin
University, Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Abstract
The experiment was conducted in an unheated plastic house at Al- Abassia /Al-Najaf Governorate during autumn seasons of 2016. The objective of this work to study the effect of foliar and soil applied fertilizers on growth and yield of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L. cv. Siyff). Results indicated that: The foliar spray with 10ml L-1 of the liquid fertilizer was superior in all traits and studied gave the highest value in leaf area index (20.8) plant dry weight (40.9) g, IAA (185.85) mg kg-1, GA3 (187.2) mg kg-1, CK (178.1) mg kg-1. The treatment (F1) of mineral fertilizer was superior significantly in leaf area index (23.5)and plant dry weight (42.8) g. The treatment (F3) was superior in IAA (196.39) mg.kg-1 and GA3 (199.8) mg.kg-1, CK (196.1) mg kg-1. The results showed that the interaction treatment spraying foliar fertilizer at a concentration 10ml.L-1 and 50% of mineral fertilizer was superior significantly in IAA (211.83) mg.kg-1, GA3 (221.6) kg-1, CK (214.9) mg. kg-1.
Keywords: Foliar Application, Mineral Fertilizer, Cucumber, plant hormones, GA.Auxin, CK
Topic: Animal Nutrition and feed technology